Storming of Berlin

The Storming of Berlin (late October 1805) occurred when the 3,396-strong Grande Armee of the First French Empire, commanded by Emperor Napoleon I, stormed the Prussian capital of Berlin and conquered it. Napoleon's army advanced north from Saxony as Louis-Nicolas Davout and Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte's armies advanced from Oldenburg and Hanover, and the three armies converged on Berlin from two sides. They faced a mere 1,335 Prussian troops under Gebhard von Blucher and Carl von Clausewitz, and they succeeded in assaulting Berlin at a loss of 552 troops. The Prussian court was forced to flee to Koenigsberg in East Prussia, and Warsaw became the new capital of Prussia.